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shelfmark:"Bodl ms. Heb a 2/3"
The sender is apparently a scribe (mentions copies of books) who wishes to defer his wedding date but does not wish to end the betrothal. The city of al-Maḥalla is also mentioned.
1 نسخ 1 مناقشة
It concerns books with "glosses in his hand": sabreis komo he hallado ke tienen los libros haga'ot eskeritura de su mano y me recelo y si kereis aun kon todo esto ke os los envie os los enviare mas ha de saver ke no los vendas a ningun modo por amor de la dicha ke tiene ... y si keres os man dare los libros komo kedamos haya de ser kon este partido ke no los haveis de vender a ningun por la razon. […] And he mentions in the penultimate line "las encomiendas de mi parte y de parte de Esther que la cono[ces]"; Gutwirth suggests that Esther is his wife.
لا توجد ثبت المراجع والمصادر
Here, Abū l-ʿAlāʾ reports that he works in a silk shop (dukkān qizāza) together with Muslim artisans, including a Jewish convert to Islam (rajul posheaʿ) who has antagonized him by seeking to expel him from the shop. To this end, the apostate bears false witness against him and accuses him of taking vain oaths in the name of the king. […] The contract between the employer and the laborer indebted to him certainly stipulated that the latter had to pay the whole sum, in case he left the job. This was a means to ensure that the employee would not leave in time of a boom, see the preceding document.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 1 مناقشة
In Hebrew and Judaeo-Arabic. Consists entirely of expressions of longing and blessings. Same sender as Yevr.
Above the horizontal bar each entry has an Arabic word (نقله and حمزتها?) followd by a numeral.There is Hebrew literary text on verso.
In Judaeo-Arabic. There are various entries about different matters, including several deceased people and their surviving offspring, inventories of property, and a narration of things two people said to each other.
1 مناقشة
Late. A variety of the entries list "builders" (בנאין) so perhaps some figures represent construction costs.
Mentions pepper; tartar, brazilwood, and lac (in the entry at 90 degrees); "the ʿArīf purchased for me a ridda and [...] for Maḥfūẓ"; lac, sal ammoniac, and pepper; someone's brother in law.
The payment is made (min jihat) by a government employee (al-mustakhdam); the name Fakhr b. Yūsuf appears at the end of the line.) Cf. T-S AS 177.73 (PGPID 37030).
Letter in Ladino to Yehuda Gatenio, from a business partner in Alexandria, dated 10 August 1823 (3 Elul 5583 AM). Deals entirely with business transactions; Yehuda is to send something to Shelomo Naḥm__[?]
Mentions Mordekhai Ḥefeṣ, who was a ḥaver in the Bet Din of the Nagid in Egypt at the end of the 15th century and the beginning of the 16th century.
1 نسخ
The object of rent might be a mill (Ṭāḥūn) in the Ḥārat al-Yahūd, the payer is Bū ʿAlī and owner Ishaq. Few sums towards the end of the document. The name of the notary is Sayyidī Ḥasan Effendī.
The first page from a letter in three languages requesting aid and assistance coming from the compensation of "Raḥov ha-Nahār" in Jerusalem – the second page is an assessment of the rabbis' compensated traveled, and the changes that occurred with it regarding the collectors and the lighting – undated – (number 295) – in Hebrew, Yiddish, and English.
Some sequences can be read: l. 1 al-maʿānī allatī and l. 2 b. Isrāʾīl; at the end of the document, traces of signatures of the witnesses.
The letter consists essentially entirely of formulaic phrases, and it may even be a formulary or draft based on the appearance of "fulān" twice at the bottom of verso.
The sender reports that conditions are terrible in his location; reports on the price of wheat and bread; prays for deliverance from God; mentions his intention to enter Alexandria; begins to provide an update on the condition of Abū Ghālib.
Letter sent from Alexandria in which a cheese-maker asks his son to send him the receipt for his capitation tax and writes that he hopes to travel home as soon as the Khalij canal of Fustat has enough water. (Information from Goitein's index cards)
May be addressed to a jurisconsult regarding a legal opinion, ending "wa-huwa wa-raʾyuhū abṣar." The sender and addressee are Jewish, based on the phrase "wa-ḥaqq al-tawrā" (l. 4 and l. 10 of the first page).
Verso: one word in Hebrew (ha-rav), and a single line in Arabic (‘the rent to the end of the month of Muḥarram’). (Information from CUDL.)
The sender is distressed about something, perhaps that the addressee has exerted himself for the sender's concerns. He wishes a happy ending and blessings on the addressee's son ("ha-beraḥ ha-naʿim" for "ha-peraḥ.")
The beginnings of five lines from the main text block are preserved, together with a large piece of the right margin, which contain the greetings at the end of the letter. One of the people greeted is Abū l-Rab[īʿ].
Dealing with a communal controversy. Ends ואלחדר מן אלמכאלפה ואלחק תע יכון פי [עונך] וענאיתך.
Verso: Informal but deferential note from Ḥananel b. Shemuel (cf. ENA 2808.53), informing the addressee that he has sent something for (?
2 pages from a list of revenues and expenses for the end of 1200, written by Yosef b. Shemuel b. Seʿadya ha-Levi.
Begins "tadhkira bism" like the earlier cluster of ENA 3953.1, T-S AS 178.126, T-S AS 178.200.
Unusual format. The sender encourages the addressee to come spend Shabbat with them: ...
Fragment of an official report; the ends of 4 lines are preserved. Mentions a city (bi-l-madīna) and to traveling routes (ان الموضع الذي سلك . . .
Does not have the usual endorsements at the top (unless they were much higher up and torn away).
Recto: geomantic designs consisting of series of horizontal dashes organised in groups of 4 lines each and laid out in two columns. At the end of the second column there are four lines in Ladino mentioning a Sabbatical year.
Two small folios of accounts in Judaeo-Arabic. Several of the entires specify a market, a person's name, a commodity, and a number, e.g., Sūq Wardān - with Bū l-Ḥasan - 2 [...].
One of the pages (labeled Leaf 28) has entries for the synagogues Talmud Torah and Rabbi Yishmaʿel.
One page has a poem in Ladino involving a husband and wife and a knight, with refrains which are different from each other but which all end with "yo" (continuation of the poem on the preceding framgent).
The portion preserved consists entirely of good wishes for the holiday and expressions of longing.
The petitioner is one of the traders entering (or importing goods into?) Egypt and claims to be a good man.
1 نسخ 1 ترجمة 2 مناقشتان
Verso is a petition to the Fatimid caliph al-ʿĀmir, for which see different entry.
[بسـ]ـم الله الرحمن [الرحيم]
صلوات الله وبركاته ونوامي زكواته [وافضل تحياته على سيدنا ومولانا
[الامام] الامر باحكام الله امير المؤمنين وع…
He begs for a small loan in preparation for the upcoming holiday. See also ENA NS 2.8 addressed to the same recipient who is given the title al-Mansuri in each letter.
Mentions aḥbās, probably in relation to endowments, and a few like Saturday, 15th Shaʿbān, but a year is not mentioned anywhere.
Fragment of a fiscal document referring to the annual budget of the Dīwān al-Abwāb (aka Dīwān al-Kharājī wa-l-Hilālī) "من مال ضمان ديوان الابواب". Cf. ENA NS 71.22. Dated: 523 H (could also be kharājī).
Mainly in Hebrew, with a few lines in Judaeo-Arabic at the end. (Information from Mediterranean Society, IV, pp. 227, 228).
Verso is headed "al-Gharbī" and one entry refers to "the dry" and the next to אלאלין (some category of grain?).
David b. Shekhanya. Verso: End of a letter, or maybe just a draft of a letter.
Refers to "the salvation that occurred in Tishrei 1428 Seleucid" (=1116 CE). Ends with the phrase/motto "Yeshaʿ Rav." (Information from Goitein's index card.)
In Judaeo-Arabic and Hebrew. Very similar to ENA NS 33.12, perhaps even a join (but there are some differences in the handwriting).
Dating: 11th–13th century. Some entries deal with the weights of items. The term "וזן" appears repeatedly under the archival tape that was applied along the right border of the recto.
A wide variety of ingredients are mentioned in each entry's mixing instructions: scammony, natron, sal ammoniac, pepper, saffron, opium, honey, absinthe, among others.
This fragment is directly related to the neighboring shelmark ENA 3518.2– the two fragments may be joins from a financial ledger.
The Lieberman catalog (cited in FGP) connects this shelfmark with ENA 3571.2, but the two shelfmarks are not related.
Possibly accounts, with Arabic entries in right column with Coptic numerals in the left column.
من ظهر . . وتحصيله اليه. The ends of two lines are preserved on verso: . . . ه كما هو اهله . . .
Rent receipt (? اجرته end of line 1) for al-shaykh Abū al-Ḥasan Saʿīd al-Yahūdī al-Ḥarīrī for a dār in the al-Mamṣūṣa neighborhood of Fusṭāṭ.